Publications
and Resources
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The Having a Say Resource Manual:
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Is a resource for people with intellectual disability, aimed directly and
personally at them, rather than being written for a group setting and aimed at support
staff. The manual :
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Individual Workbook One:
Building Strong Self Advocacy
The Building Strong Self Advocacy Workbook is aimed directly at people with intellectual disability. It is hoped that people with intellectual disability will make their own way through Building Strong Self Advocacy, drawing wherever necessary on support and assistance from staff, family members, friends or fellow self advocates.
The Workbook looks at six important ‘Powers’ that everyone needs to be a strong self advocate. It asks the reader to check whether they have these powers, and encourages them to become ‘strong self advocates’.
Individual Workbook Two:
My Life, My Service
The My Life, My Service Workbook aims to:
VALID-8 Your Service:
Audit of Client Empowerment in Disability Services
VALID-8 Your Service aims to give disability service agencies a tool for measuring their performance in relation to client empowerment. It provides indicators of eight important client empowerment measures, as recommended by VALID.
VALID-8 Your Service can be used by services as a guide to the things they should be doing to empower clients to genuinely have a say which is heard.
Services may also choose to engage VALID to give an independent audit of their service using the VALID-8 assessment. Services that are VALID-8ed will be given their own Certificate of Client Empowerment to proudly display.
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THE ADVOCACY FOR INCLUSION
TRAINING MANUAL
Empowering people who support, assist or represent people with intellectual disability.
ARE YOU READY FOR THE CHALLENGE?
For the past two decades we have focused on getting people with intellectual disability out of congregate facilities and into more individualised, community-based services. But the process of community integration - which is about physically relocating people - is only the beginning.
The real challenge is still ahead of us - that of ensuring community inclusion. For many people with intellectual disability that challenge will only be met with the support of staff, parents and friends who are themselves able to grow from being simply workers, carers and instructors to become Champions, Defenders and Allies.
Are you ready for the challenge? Are you an effective advocate on behalf of people with intellectual disability?
